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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 01:28 PM Jun 2018

Rohingya girls face 'prison-like' conditions in refugee camps

Adolescent Rohingya girls are being kept in stifling conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh, unable to go out, deprived of education and facing prospects of early marriage whether they want it or not, according to a report by the charity Plan International launched on World Refugee Day.

The report, Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Voices of the Rohingya is based on interviews with 300 refugee girls between 10 and 19 years old living in camps outside Cox's Bazar.

More than a million Rohingya, a Muslim minority from neighboring Myanmar, have fled across the border to Bangladesh since an upsurge in violence against them that started in August.

Plan found that once they arrived in a refugee shelter, girls were confined to tiny huts measuring just a few square feet, where temperatures soar close to 40° Celsius (104˚ Fahrenheit) each day, unable to go out because of restrictions placed on them by their families and for fear of violence.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/asia/rohingya-girls-bangladesh-intl/index.html
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Rohingya girls face 'prison-like' conditions in refugee camps (Original Post) oberliner Jun 2018 OP
And we're now in competition with Bangladesh thucythucy Jun 2018 #1

thucythucy

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1. And we're now in competition with Bangladesh
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 01:37 PM
Jun 2018

to see who can be more callous to people fleeing persecution and oppression.

Of course Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations on earth, periodically wiped out by monster typhoons, with a barely functioning public health sector and antiquated or non existent infrastructure. And as the article points out, it has had to deal with "more than a million" refugees since August of last year.

What's our excuse?

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